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There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.
There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more empathy with the subject.
I do go very fast. I think if I don't go fast it's going to be boring. That's what photographers need to do.
It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!
If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.
I wanted to show the thing that had to be corrected: I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated.
I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.
If you're an actor, you're at the mercy of a script. You've got far more control if you're the photographer.
Bruce Weber is an amazing photographer, and Carine Roitfeld's style - and everything she does - is gorgeous.
At one point, I wanted to be a wildlife photographer. I also love to travel, so maybe I'd do travel writing.
Aside from my modelling, by the early Nineties I was also starting to work as a photographer, which I loved.
I don't know the American photographers as well, but I admit I love Ansel Adams. His landscapes are so crisp.
No one can do inspired work without genuine interest in his subject and understanding of its characteristics.
... to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs.
I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
Originally, I thought of being a photographer and nearly went to art school, but I got a record deal instead.
Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer
I don't see myself as a photographer. I still see the photographs and collages as a resource for the painting.
A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.
I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.
As a photographer, there are times when I have to decide if it's appropriate to invade a moment with my camera.
They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important.
I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.
Basically I'm always looking for things. Any good photographer should always be looking for something, you know.
For me it is clear that photography prizes should be for those being photographed and not for the photographers.
If I had sat around and waited until I had an idea to be a successful photographer, I would still be in finance.
Many people when I started didn't believe I was a good fashion photographer, and probably they still think that.
If you are not passionately devoted to an idea, you can make very pleasant pictures but they won't make you cry.
A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view.
It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.
Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.
The only thing we photographers really want more than life, more than sex, more than anything, is to be invisible.
When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.
I am not used to doing naked shoots but when you trust the photographer and the crew, you know it won't be vulgar.
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture.
The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.
Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.
Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.
My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.
As Estelle Jussim wrote, it is almost impossible for a single photograph to state both the problem and the solution.
I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.
We have always wanted to find the 'it-ness' of anything we shoot. We want to get as deep into the subject as we can.
I do what I feel, that's all. I am an ordinary photographer working for his own pleasure. That's all I've ever done.
You know, you have to be an optimist, a pessimist, sarcastic and pleasant all at the same time to be a photographer.
I am a tender, beautiful and loving guy that happens to slap a photographer now and then because they get in my way.
I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.
Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?
I guess I'm adaptable. You know, I turn up at work and [photographers] can kind of do what they want with me, really.